Siren's Song by Lysa Daley

Author:Lysa Daley [Daley, Lysa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“There’s at least three missing.” I handed over the police reports I’d copied in the library. “Three we didn’t already know about.”

Mr. Stroud leaned back in his big leather chair and looked at me with something of a skeptical expression. “Three what?”

“Husbands. At three husbands have gone missing near Malibu in the last year.”

He’d been unfazed when I barged into his office. He was probably used to it. But it was after 9pm, and I hadn’t been sure that I’d find him still here.

He raised a skeptical eyebrow. “I suspect husbands actually go missing every day.”

He had a point. But I explained my theory. “Yes, no… I mean, yes of course husbands go missing every day. They run off with the secretaries or their wife’s yoga teacher or whatever.” I pointed to the police reports on his desk. “But these three husbands, who lived close to Malibu, appeared to have gone missing around the time Mr. Morty’s brother vanished.”

“Okay…” he replied, still unsure what I was getting at.

“Two are still missing. But one partial body was found dead.”

“Partial?” He scooted forward in his chair.

This is the information I’d been planning to tell Stryker before my encounter with him and Karolina at the gym. Instead, I’d decided to see if Mr. Stroud would let me handle the situation alone.

“His heart was missing,” I explained.

“How inconvenient.”

“The police ruled it suicide.”

“They think he tore out his own heart?” Mr. Stroud squinted.

“They think an animal, maybe a shark, got to the body before it washed ashore,” I said. “But it’s unlikely a shark, or any other animal, would only eat the heart.”

He nodded grimly. I sat silently as he scanned the three reports.

“And how did you come by this information?” he asked.

“I did a little research on my own and looked up recent missing persons. I found a Mr. David Larson from Woodland Hills also disappeared in Malibu back in August. A week later, half of his body washed up on shore.”

“Where was his heart?” Mr. Stroud asked.

“In the part that didn’t wash up,” I explained as Mr. Stroud grimaced. “I spent the next hour searching through the computer files and discovered that in the last six months five middle-age men—three white, one Hispanic and one Asian guy—disappeared in or around Malibu. Maybe this isn't unusual. Maybe guys go missing near Malibu all the time, what do I know? I'm new here. But there is one similarity.”

“Do tell.” Mr. Stroud put his pen down.

“They all went missing on the full moon.”

Any supernatural understood the power of the full moon. It had the power to change men into werewolves. It weakened the veil between worlds. Ghosts moved more freely. Demons were harder to control.

He asked, “Any other connection to Mr. Morty or his brother?”

“There doesn’t seem to be a direct connection between them. They didn’t work in the same place, or grow up together, or anything like that. Two of them were surfers, but I don’t know about the others.”

Mr. Stroud nodded. “I can confidently advise you that Mr.

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